Anna Wessely

Anna Wessely (*1951) studied art history and English in Budapest, Munich und Marburg, followed by sociology in Budapest, where today she works as professor of sociological theory. In addition, she has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Moholy-Nagy Arts University in Budapest. She has held numerous guest professorships in Berlin, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Berkeley and Rome. From 2005 to 2006 she was a member of the advisory board to the Hungarian Cultural Minister and from 2013 to 2014 director of the Robert Angelusz College at the Eötvös Loránd University. Wessely is the editor of the interdisciplinary criticism journal BUKSZ (Budapest Review of Books).